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"Graduation" of this Community
Graduation is no longer either required, or expected of small Stack Exchange sites, and as long as we are still an active community we are at no risk of being closed down.
It's been a few years ...
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How to deal with answers (and questions) which contain false information?
Unambiguously incorrect information should be corrected, either by commenting and asking the originator to correct the content, assuming you have comment privileges (50 rep in beta); editing the post, ...
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Reminder - Please vote to close questions you think don't belong!
We currently only have around 70 users who can have the 500 reputation to cast close votes, but anyone with at least 15 reputation can flag questions to close.
As Chuck♦ says we can easily see ...
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Un-link Roomba and irobot-create tag synonym?
I agree with your line of thought here - if a roomba is no longer synonymous with irobot-create then it makes sense to ...
ChuckMod
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What is the "ROS and Gazebo Migration" account doing?
Sorry for the noise. This is a test, we'll have more information to announce soon. Expect to see some posts being made and deleted from this account for the moment. Unfortunately we don't have a ...
TullyMod
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Are we a perpetual beta?
Yes, we are now in perpetual beta.
The fact that we haven't been closed down is pretty good evidence that we are now in perpetual beta.
Our stats suggest that we would have to grow substantially as a ...
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Topic scope of "Robotics"
The scope of Robotics is defined in the What topics can I ask about here? page in the Help Centre.
As it says there:
Generic programming questions with no relation to robotics should be asked on ...
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Drone community spin-off?
We shouldn't be closing questions which are on-topic here, just because they are drone questions, but if Drones Stack Exchange takes off, we may find people prefer it even for questions which are on-...
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Why is Robotics SE in Public Beta after 8 years?
This is a complex question that doesn't have a great answer - while Ben's answer does give some good explanations for how the system has worked in the past and it's worth considering and following ...
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unfunded bounties
There is no such thing as an unfunded bounty, from What is a bounty? How can I start one? we can see...
All bounties are paid for up front and non-refundable under any circumstances.
So, the reason ...
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2023 Community Moderator Election
Although I have been a pro-tem moderator of Robotics since its inception, I will not be standing in this election... other commitments mean I no longer have the time to be as active as needed, and ...
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Is a 3d printer a robot?
If Is a printer a robot? were asking "Is a printer a robot for the purpose whether it is on-topic for Robotics?" it would be a valid question here on meta but not on the main site, but it is on the ...
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Are questions about robotics competitions on-topic?
I agree with my fellow mods. If the question is otherwise on-topic for robotics then it's fine. As we say in What topics can I ask about here?
if your question generally covers …
a specific robotics ...
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Are questions about robotics competitions on-topic?
I would bet a lot of us have participated in or judged a robotics competition. Probably if you have a question specific to that robotics competition, your best bet would be to contact the organizer or ...
ChuckMod
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Are questions about robotics competitions on-topic?
I'd say it depends. If the question is about a specific robotics question related to the competition, then go for it. But if the question is an open ended design question, then that is not a good ...
BenMod
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Drone community spin-off?
I think that the real question is, are there enough on-topic questions to support a drone site? The problem I've seen with drone questions in general are that they're generally off-topic.
The bulk ...
ChuckMod
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What should our policy be on identification questions?
Yes, we should allow identification questions
identification questions are notoriously difficult to answer via a simple google search.
Many other Stack Exchange sites allow these kinds of questions.
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Discussion about the necessity of syntax highlight
There does seem to be rather a lot of code here...
Ok, this is enabled. Note that there are currently no defaults, so you'll need to use the hints to trigger highlighting; moderators can also specify ...
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New tag request: "screw-theory"
I agree. Go for it. I wasn't sure if you had the reputation to create a new tag, so I made one and marked a few questions with it.
BenMod
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Why is Robotics SE in Public Beta after 8 years?
There are some good links in the comments, but to answer your question:
How can newcomers help?
The site stats on Area51 give a good indication of what needs to happen to graduate to a non-Beta site....
BenMod
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Given the recent graduation from Beta, what’s next?
For now, very little will change. The main thing is that we no longer have "Beta" sitting ominously in the header. Hopefully that will result in fewer people thinking we might disappear at ...
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What URL should the "MathJax help" link on the Editing Help page point to?
Well, now that I know we have our own MathJax help post, I guess we should just link to that.
BenMod
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Why is DH convention still used in Robotics?
This question has been tackled on our site a few times:
Why do we generally prefer DH parameters over other kinematic representations of robot arms?
What are the advantages of using the Denavit-...
BenMod
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Can the Community Bot behavior be made less annoying?
To quote Shog9's answer to Community ♦ seems to be bumping new questions more frequently than usual over on Meta.SE:
Note that the posts eligible for bumping are those scoring >= 0 that have gone ...
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Is there a need for Industrial Automation SE?
I'll chime in that I generally view "robotics" as a holistic term, referring to systems as opposed to components. For example, if you want to "learn robotics," you should study mechanical, electrical, ...
ChuckMod
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Is there a need for Industrial Automation SE?
Our definition of Robotics is pretty broad. To clarify, I have updated What topics can I ask about here? to be more explicit:
We ask and answer questions about robotics and automation systems, ...
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Discussion about the necessity of syntax highlight
I have just switched the "Code Language (used for syntax highlighting)" option on the ros tag from <none> to default, so ...
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Robotics Stack Exchange question checklist
I think the most critical point on that list is,
Have you explained what you've already tried to solve your problem?
You didn't try anything yet? Then, unless it's a conceptual question, there's ...
ChuckMod
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Why is the review queue empty?
I think it is just because Robotics doesn't get that many questions. With only 2.1 questions per day according to Area51 (https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/40020/robotics), our few ...
BenMod
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Retag suggestion: robotic arms vs. arm CPUs
Thanks for bringing this up.
I've now retagged all arm tagged posts relating to arm processors as arm-cpu, added arm as a tag synonym for robotic-arm and merged the arm into the robotic-arm tag, so ...
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